Rewinding to Friday, September 12, 1997…
Friday · Spokane, Washington, United States
The world on September 12, 1997 in Spokane.
Scroll back in time ↓01The weather outside
A high of 65°F in Spokane.
65°F/ 18°C high
Low of 47°F · 0.01 in of precipitation · wind up to 14 mph
The sun rose at 6:23 am and set at 7:07 pm — 12h 44m of daylight.
Daily estimates from NASA POWER on a regional grid, using local solar days. Sunrise and sunset are calculated for this city.
Reconstructed from historical climate data — the closest thing we have to a weather time machine.
02The sky that night
A waxing gibbous watched over you.
82% lit · 10.6 days into its cycle
Looking up from Spokane that evening, you could have spotted Jupiter and Saturn without a telescope.
It was autumn in your half of the world.
The Moon was 228,403 miles away — closer than usual.
03On every radio
The chart-topper that week: “Mo Money Mo Problems”
by The Notorious B.I.G. Featuring Puff Daddy & Mase — number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for 2 weeks, taking over from “I'll Be Missing You”.
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04What a dollar bought
Your first receipt.
GENERAL STORE
SPOKANE · 1997-09-12
BREAD COSTS 2.1× WHAT IT DID
US national averages · ≈ = estimated from inflation
05Your life in numbers
Since that day, you have lived…
0
seconds
and counting, right now
0
heartbeats
at a resting average of 80 a minute
0
breaths
give or take a few yawns
0
sunrises
1,521 weeks of them
0
full moons
have risen since your first night
0.00B
miles traveled
29 laps around the Sun
06Born under
A Friday's child, under Virgo.
Star sign
Virgo
Earth sign
Chinese zodiac
Ox
Fire Ox
Birthstone
Sapphire
for your month
Birth flower
Aster
for your month
Generation
Generation Z
1997–2012
Day of the week
Friday
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